Quantization of Singular Symplectic Quotients (Progress in Mathematics)
Contributors: N.P. Landsman (Editor); Markus Pflaum (Editor); Martin Schlichenmaier (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: October 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9783764366087
Subjects: Analytic geometry; Mathematical Physics; Differential Geometry; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Symplectic manifolds; General; Geometry - Differential; Mathematics / General; geometry; topology; Geometric quantization
First sentence: Most readers of this volume presumably know how symplectic reduction goes: given a hamiltonian action of a Lie group on a symplectic manifold, one divides a level set of a momentum map by the action of a suitable subgroup to form a new symplectic manifold.